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Re: A Wrecked Church!
Okay, here's my take:
First of all, it sounds like the daughter is trying to be fiercely loyal to her Dad's wishes. Right, wrong or indifferent, it sounds like she's using whatever power that she has to make sure what HE wants is what takes place--even if she has to kick objectors to the curb to get it done.
Secondly, there's always more than one side to a story, and respectfully, we only have one side represented on this thread.
I've just been imagining how I might act in the same circumstance. If I had power and knew my Dad had certain wishes and people in the church were trying to overturn his wishes with their vote (at least, in my perspective) I can't say that I might not react badly. Granted, it's the wrong reaction for several reasons, but I can empathize. People start being stubborn for the sake of it and it becomes a power struggle rather than negotiating what is best for the church as a whole.
On a final note, I think the personal life of the daughter is irrelevant to this conversation and everything that has been alluded to in that regard has been supposition and "rumor." It's best to leave that kind of stuff out of the equation. Stick to the facts.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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